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'"How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly," novelist and
writer Ernest Hemingway wrote in
The Sun Also Rises. People keep saying a
collapse is coming. It's not. It's already here. You're living in it. So am I.
Collapse is not an apocalyptic event. It's what happens when the rules change.
It's the slow hustle with nothing to show for it. It's rising rent. It's the
consistent rise of your grocery bill. And rising rent.
Collapse is all the little cuts you do to make ends meet. Maybe you've cut
subscriptions. Delayed repairs. Or skipped a doctor's visit to avoid the bill.
Collapse is when your parents can't retire and your friends can't afford kids.
People are falling behind on retirement savings at an alarming rate. For many,
retirement isn't a goal. It's a fantasy. Collapse is terrible political
decisions. It's tariffs gone wrong. And economic dysfunction we can't control.
The world is not ending.
It's just becoming unrecognisable.
You're not being priced out of life by accident. This is the system working
exactly as designed. Extracting every ounce of value from you until there's
nothing left. Corporate profits are hitting record highs while wages stagnate.
"Home prices have jumped 118% since 1965, while income has only increased by
15%, according to Clever Real Estate. Pew reports that across the years 1958 to
2015, public trust in government at large plunged from 72 to just 19 percent.
Most people don't trust their governments to solve anything for them.
I don't.
They won't.
The systemic failure we are experiencing is out of control. 63% of Americans
have been living from paycheck to paycheck since September 2022. People are
anxious about their futures. Depression is rising. That's collapse. It's
systemic. It's uneven. But it's real. We keep waiting for some sort of big
systemic collapse. A "before" and "after." But we are already living in it.
It's just unevenly distributed.
Collapse is a pattern.
That's what makes it so confusing.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
